abeyantadj.
/əˈbeɪənt/, U.S. /əˈbeɪənt/ That is in a state of abeyance or suspension; dormant; latent.
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intermitted1557
pausing1572
suspensivea1623
cessant1648
suspending1656
interpolateda1676
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abeyant1822
1822 Morning Post 17 Aug. With regard to any abeyant rights of the Roman Catholic, I contend that he lost all right of making and executing laws for a Protestant population.
1850 S. Judd Richard Edney & Governor's Family xi. 155 The depths, the teeming crypts, the abeyant longings of his nature, you could not thrill.
1866 Burke's Geneal. Hist. Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (new ed.) Contents Peerages, Dormant, Extinct, Forfeited and Abeyant, arranged Alphabetically according to the Surname of each Peer.
1907 Science 7 June 911/2 The reappearance of such characters as the black eyes and the woolly seeds, which have been abeyant through many generations.
1952 E. Waugh Let. 31 July (1980) 377 Maimie and Vsevolode follow the old, almost abeyant custom, of residing together without speaking.
1996 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 23 May 7 Parkinson's disease needs medical management in its abeyant stages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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